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Social and Cultural Dynamics

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Andrei Boutyline
University of California, Berkeley
2
Ellis P. Monk
Harvard University Press
3
Laura K. Nelson
Northeastern University
4
Laura Kurtzberg
Unknown
5
Davide Luca
London School of Economics and Political Science
6
Bartholomew Alexander Konechni
Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux
7
Youngju Kim
Seoul National University
8
Leon Moosavi
University of Liverpool
9
Ali Meghji
University of Cambridge
10
Matthew J. Phillips
Curtin University

Rising Stars Papers

1
From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory
Sociological Theory|2024
33 cit.
2
The new geography of remote jobs in Europe
Regional Studies|2024
19 cit.
3
Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois: Frazier, St Clair Drake, and the global and comparative study of race and empire
Sociological Forum|2024
16 cit.
4
Empowering Undergraduate Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine: Exploring Experiences, Fostering Motivation, and Advancing Gender Equity
Social Sciences|2024
14 cit.
5
Drifting further apart? Europe's trends of urban-rural political polarisation should not be overstated
Political Geography|2024
11 cit.
6
Meaning in Hyperspace: Word Embeddings as Tools for Cultural Measurement
Annual Review of Sociology|2025
11 cit.
7
The rules of the academic game: reviewing the history of Australian higher education
Frontiers in Education|2024
7 cit.
8
Early Remnants of Global Historical Sociology: Methodological Innovations Among Classical Black Sociologists
Sociology Lens|2025
7 cit.
9
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution
Sociology Compass|2024
6 cit.
10
Sociologists as change agents? Thoughts on Lamont’s <i>Seeing Others</i>
Ethnic and Racial Studies|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Edoardo Teso
Decision Sciences (United States)
2
Masha Krupenkin
Boston College
3
Manvir Singh
Harvard University
4
Chana Teeger
University of Johannesburg
5
Ben Mudd
Wave Dragon (Denmark)
6
Elizabeth Popp Berman
University of Michigan
7
Anneli Kaasa
University of Tartu
8
Magne Flemmen
University of Oslo
9
Elena Ayala‐Hurtado
Princeton University
10
Ryan Enos
Harvard University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Interviews in the social sciences
Nature Reviews Methods Primers|2022
457 cit.
2
Do dimensions of culture exist objectively? A validation of the revised Minkov-Hofstede model of culture with World Values Survey items and scores for 102 countries
Journal of International Management|2022
276 cit.
3
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model
Evolution and Human Behavior|2022
104 cit.
4
Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music
Nature Reviews Psychology|2023
57 cit.
5
Evidence for third-party mediation but not punishment in Mentawai justice
Nature Human Behaviour|2022
37 cit.
6
Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies
Evolution and Human Behavior|2023
30 cit.
7
Are Different Two-Dimensional Models of Culture Just a Matter of Different Rotations? Evidence From the Analysis Based on the WVS/EVS
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology|2022
26 cit.
8
Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway
Berliner Journal für Soziologie|2022
19 cit.
9
Influence-Seeking in U.S. Corporate Elites’ Campaign Contribution Behavior
The Review of Economics and Statistics|2023
19 cit.
10
A Transposition of the Minkov-Hofstede Model of Culture to the Individual Level of Analysis: Evidence from Mongolia
Cross-Cultural Research|2023
16 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Seok‐Woo Kwon
University of Calgary
2
Peter J. Burke
University of California, Riverside
3
Loïc Wacquant
University of California System
4
John H. Goldthorpe
University of Oxford
5
Ann Mische
University of Notre Dame
6
Sean Westwood
Dartmouth College
7
Bertram F. Malle
University of California, Los Angeles
8
Wayne E. Baker
University of Michigan
9
Luigi Zingales
National Bureau of Economic Research
10
Jennifer Crocker
The Ohio State University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1993
9.4k cit.
2
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
The Canadian Journal of Sociology|1993
8.4k cit.
3
Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept
Academy of Management Review|2002
7.9k cit.
4
Financial Dependence and Growth
American Economic Review|1996
6.8k cit.
5
Do Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|1997
6.7k cit.
6
What Do We Know about Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data
The Journal of Finance|1995
6.7k cit.
7
What Is Agency?
American Journal of Sociology|1998
5.8k cit.
8
Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1994
4.8k cit.
9
Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values
American Sociological Review|2000
4.6k cit.
10
Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory
Social Psychology Quarterly|2000
4.3k cit.

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